How to Create Substantial Income from Pinterest

One of my passions is teaching women how to make money from home. I love being able to stay home with my kiddos and still contribute to my huge financial goals.

I worked for a long time at “the blogging thing” without really making any money, so I decided to try something different last summer, and agreed to work on it for three months. I ended up getting sidetracked and not being as consistent as I liked. I was spending a lot of time on my blog, focusing on sharing my passion instead of creating a profit. I ended up learning some things about Pinterest and getting some new tools to help me market better, and my blog traffic exploded.

Instead of using my newfound Pinterest skills just for blogging, I decided to apply it toward making money right away. I didn’t want to start marketing a ton on my blog, so I decided to start sharing affiliate links. I wanted to be able to share what I did, and then keep my blog ad-free.

What I Pinned

I pinned a ton of products, and painstakingly kept notes of what worked and what didn’t. I figured out how to use analytics to see what my Pinterest audience loved, and what my most profitable boards were.

After that, I started Pinning products from affiliate programs that paid per click, as well as per sale so I started bringing in really good money. I had a few Pins go viral and they continue to make me $300 a month on average months.

Affiliate programs I use

I started off using Shopstyle Collective and for a while they were the only company I used because they paid per click that you don’t need a website for, which I love!

I still use them and get a check from them each month (well, actually a PayPal deposit, but that’s beside the point.) and I like them, but I really only joined them because they were the company I knew of that would allow me to promote Etsy.

I heard about Awin from somewhere and tried them out because I like to see if different platforms perform better then others. As it turns out, I tested using an Awin link and a Shopstyle link on two versions of the same image and the Awin pin out-performed the ShopStyle Collective Pin by 400%. This is huge, and the only thing I can attribute to that is that the Awin Pins are Rich Pins, so you see how much money the Pins’ product costs.

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What I did to make consistent sales

I played with Pinterest marketing for several months before I really figured out what worked for me. These were the things that really sent me over the edge from making less than $5 a month to making well over $10 a day.

Signed up for a free Tailwind account. I upgraded pretty quickly because it was useful for running my blogs, and for just the Pinterest marketing, but I did stick with the free plan for quite a while before I started making money. I highly recommend anyone who is interested in Pinterest marketing for any purpose uses Tailwind. I recommend it to my students so often that I actually created a free course called Tailwind Mastery for them so they wouldn’t feel so overwhelmed using it when they first started.

Signed up for a free Boardbooster account. I’m still using their free trial, which includes 3,000 Pins. I have them loop on my top-grossing board and occasionally use it to loop in other boards I am playing with. You can see me setting up Looping in this blog post where I share my process 🙂

Pinning consistently to my top-performing boards. Before I used Tailwind I pinned 5-10 times a day, 1-5 pins each time. After I started using Tailwind I went to 10, then 20 times a day. Now I typically have 50 Pins a day in my queue.

Creating custom images. This was the thing that helped me track my pins easily and differentiate them from all the other people who were Pinning the same images. Creating custom images is basically the difference between sharing Pins like the one on the left (just a plain product image) and the one on the right, which was my first viral Pin.

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My consistent results from Pinterest affiliate marketing

My Pinterest following went from growing by 1-3 followers a day to 10+ a day. I started with less than 1,000 Pinterest followers in March of 2017 (when my first Pin went viral) to having over 5,000 followers (since this number is always growing, you can check to see the number of followers I have below.

Part of the nature of Pinterest affiliate marketing is that with pay per click programs you’ll have huge swings in your income, but the more Pins you have floating around, the higher the upward “swings” will go, and your “dips” will also be higher. It takes a while to get to that point, but once you do get there it’s great! Averaged out, my earnings for the first several months after my first viral Pins, held steady at between $10 and $30 a day. After that they continued to climb steadily and by the end of this year, my new average income is around $6,000 a month with all of the programs I promote.

How I get my income numbers

I want to take a second to be really, really clear here about how I arrive at my income numbers:

I do not count any affiliate income I make through my blog in these numbers

Some bloggers pad their income reports and make it look like they’re “making money” when it’s all them referring people to programs like Awin, then count that as “affiliate income” – so I don’t include my referral program fees here because I feel like that’s dishonest

One question I get a lot is “do you publish income reports?” and the answer is no . I don’t publish regular income reports because I feel like it’s hard to give a big picture of your business and the time and effort it takes to get to that point in a single blog post. Most income reports make it look unreasonably easy to make money online. It isn’t. It takes lots of time, strategic hard work, and I don’t ever want someone to think I’m giving the “anyone can do this with little work!” scam marketing message. That’s not who I am.

The conclusion

I absolutely love Pinterest marketing. It’s a blast, and as far as online business go, it’s simple to implement and it’s very lucrative. It’s definitely a ton of work, and it’s not a get-rich quick scheme. I tested my theories on what would work and ideas for shortcuts and hacks that I hoped would be the quicker road to more profits… most of those ideas weren’t great, but I did learn a lot about what not to do for a year before I had my first batch of Pins go viral.

I actually contacted Amazon directly about this because I had seen other bloggers commenting that you couldn’t use Amazon affiliate links on Pinterest. According to Amazon, you can use your affiliate links on Pinterest with no fear of repercussions.

Hi christina, couldnt figure out how to place my own comment or email you. I wanna know where you get the things you pin. Do you go if you go into different sites (ex. Forever21, etsy etc) and pin from there, or how?

Hi Yazmin,
You would first sign up with an affiliate such as Awin or ShopStyle Collective. Then, while browsing the web, you find products you like, products that are popular, or products that would fit into your niche, and then you pin them or create your own pin. I link to products that others sell and make money for each click, or sale depending on the program.

My Pinterest affiliate marketing is completely separate from my blogging. If I decided to shut down my blog today, it would not affect my Pinterest affiliate earnings in any way. My Pinterest affiliate links get shared directly onto Pinterest, and while I do use relevant affiliate links in my blog posts, I don’t include that income as my Pinterest Business’s income.

I wanted my blog to primarily be a place where I could educate others.

Affiliate products are ordinary products from companies that pay you to promote and sell them.

I teach students in the ecourse how to find companies that pay you every time someone clicks on your “affiliate link” (your link to their product) and to get a percentage every time someone purchases a product.

Can that affiliate link, be MLM products like Origami Owl Or Interior designs etc. Or something more lucrative such as Rogan & Fields or Melaluka. I do not get out much & would prefer, working at home. “I’m an intervert!” And a slow learner. But as soon as I get my hands dirty & comfortable, in knowing what i am doing. I know I can soar beyond the clouds. Just need some coaching, on what to do & what not to do.

Rhonda,
Hi there. It would need to be products/websites that are set up through the affiliate programs like Shopstyle Collective and Awin. If you want to work from home and are an introvert, this is probably the best gig for you!

The title says no blogging required but it only talks about Pinterest in relation to blogging. It doesn’t explain how to actually make money without blogging. If it’s affiliates…how is that done? More explanation would be great!
Thanks 🙂

Jeanne,
I am currently writing an ecourse on this very thing, which answers everything you’ll need to know, just sign up in the bow at the bottom of the email.
But, to answer your question, an affiliate program pays you for sending them traffic, and pays you for sales, and sometimes just for sending traffic to their website. I promote specific products and then when people click on them, I get paid for it. Does that answer your question?

Can we please talk before your April 1st launch please? How can I contact you? I need to get up to speed and really need help. I love that your passion is teaching. That means you’re good hearted and kind.

Christina, thanks for sharing! I, too, am extremely interested, but lacking in the technology department. Do you feel your coaching packet is elementary enough to help seniors that know computer basics but not much more?

I am very familiar with teaching non-technies! 😀 The way my coaching works is that it works with an ecourse, where you can watch walkthrough videos that give you the basic idea, then the coaching helps you if you need any extra help. 🙂

Thanks for being brave and asking that Diane! I’m not a techie either so this was a concern!
Christina, this is such an awesome thing you’re doing. I LOVE pinterest but could never seem to understand it even as a user. Right now I use it to just look up articles and mom blogs. I have a blog right now that is a mess and has only had 90 views. While I’m super passionate about it’s content, I would like to attract lots more traffic and def use it as a means to earn an income. However you have peaked my interest in using a no blog approach to earn money on pinterest. You obviously do both(have blogs and earn money through pinterest without a blog). My question is which should I start focusing on first? I only ask because I am a mom of 5 homeschoolers and I will need to focus on 1 thing instead of a variety of things and my budget is super slim. Know what i mean? I’m wondering what my best investment with the least amount of money down will be? I’ve subscribed and got access! Thanks for listening. I appreciate your time

Erin,
Firstly, you may find some benefit from my free course, Pinterest 101. It’s a good tutorial for the “non-techies” which many of my students are. 🙂 Also, I think that both businesses have great income potential, but it depends on your priorities. Do you LOVE writing and are you passionate about that your blog topic? Are you willing to learn all the ins and outs of the technology and graphic design behind blogging to make it successful? For many people, they aren’t. That doesn’t make them bad, it just means that it isn’t a good business for them, but can be a fun hobby! I don’t know you and wouldn’t presume to tell you where you gifts and skills are, of course! But in my experience, non-techies who struggle with time are better off with Pinterest affiliate marketing.

Instead of 1,000 things you COULD be doing with a blog every day, Pinterest affiliate marketing is basically a few daily tasks: find popular content to Pin, share that popular content, make affiliate Pins, and share affiliate Pins. That’s it. One you’ve learned how to do those, it’s just rinse and repeat! Blogging is constantly evolving, which is great if you LOVE change, but if you just want something a little more steady and consistent as far as skill level goes, Pinterest affiliate marketing all the way.

Nia,
I am still working out the finer points of the ecourse, but it will definitely be a lifetime membership where students can buy once and have access to the course forever. I’ll be announcing the price and launch date to my VIP list very soon, so add your email there and I’ll be more than happy to share once I have all the details worked out!

I’m very interested, I Think. I’m very “non-techie”, but I understand that’s who you’ll be catering to, is that correct? I live in a rural area so my internet is pretty slow sometimes really slow. Also what kind of hardware will be needed? Is a laptop enough and how much memory? These probably aren’t the kinds of questions you were anticipating and I do have a ton of others, but I’m sure they’ll be answered later if I sign up. Which brings me to my last couple of questions. I haven’t signed up for the VIP program yet because I thought I should get answered first. Finally (!) I’m disabled, so I assume if I can’t work, it hurts only me right? No set hours or amount I have to do? Sorry one more question, by signing up I won’t be obligating myself to spending any money yet am I? I need to see more info before I do anything, I didn’t even know anyone except advertisers and people selling things could make moneys

Betty –
I do help non-techies, but some basic technology skills are required. 🙂 As one of my current coaching students says, if you can do online banking and work Pinterest, you should be alright to do the course.

I only spent about 5 hours a week on Pinterest and I make around $300-$500 on an average month. There are months where I’m just too busy, have sick kids or I’m busy and don’t even do the 5 hours a week and I still make money, which is what makes this the ideal “side hustle”to help people with limited time.

By signing up for the VIP list, there is no obligation whatsoever! It just signs you up for my emails, which is where I’ll share everything that will be covered in the ecourse, the price and answer any other questions (although I’m happy to respond to comments here too!) and you’re totally welcome to unsubscribe at any time if it’s not for you!

Yet another senior really interested but with very little knowledge of these modern ideas. However, if no blogging is required, Ill go for it.Do I need a web site, in which case can’t do it?
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Many thanks
Gill

Awesome Lori!
The ecourse is currently available for pre-order for VIP students at a lower price, so make sure to put your email on the list so you can get the special price before the price increases! 😉

I know that most affilate companies require you to have your own website or blog. But I don’t have either of those. Do you share in your course affiliate companies that let you work with them without a website or blog? I’m not going to start any, so the main information I need is the right companies that would allow me make money just only from Pinterest.

There are affiliate companies that want to work with Pinterest-only marketers because they understand how profitable it is for them.

The model I teach in the course is that you do not need a website or blog to succeed on Pinterest. Most students don’t have the time, energy, desire and/or technical skills to start a blog… and it’s important to me that I can empower my students to make money in the way they want to do it instead of following a model (like blogging) that they can’t or don’t want to use. 🙂

Nope! Many of my students have a smaller follower following! I personally have less than 4k followers right now and average $300-$500 a month working 5 hours a month on Pinterest… just to put it in perspective!

Hey Jeff,
The course is only available for pre-order for email subscribers. You can put your email in here to get signed up and have access to preorder, or the course will be available June 1st for the public at full price.

Hi Christina,
I’m looking for something that could potentially replace my full-time income within the next one and a half to two years. Would you recommend this as a part-time supplemental income or possibly a full time income potential?

Yes, definitely! I tell my students to expect a year before a full-time income if you put in 5-10 hours a month like I do. I could put in more hours and make significantly more, but as a stay at home mom with two and other businesses to run I just don’t have the extra time to commit. 🙂

You can definitely increase your income faster with more time to commit, or it you have a larger following, but my following is small, under 3k at this time.

There are affiliate programs for entrepreneurs in Australia, I’m not entirely sure how many there are, but I’m planning on putting together a module if I can find enough resources for my foreign students with companies for them. I’ve had a lot of questions about it, and being from the US I haven’t had any cause to look at it for myself.
Christina

Anka,
There are companies that work with affiliates all over the world! If you shoot me an email at christina (at) christinaroot.com I can shoot you some options to check out and see if they work in Poland!

M-
I would love to talk more! Subscribe to my email list for more information here. If you want to talk one on one, just reply to your confirmation email and I’ll answer any questions you have!
Christina

Great advice. You mentioned opting for affiliates that pay per click. Which affiliates do you recommend other than Shopstyle? I don’t think networks like Shareasale offer pay per click, is that correct? Thanks!

Thank you for the quick response and explanation, makes perfect sense. And yes it is a coincidence she and I have the same name. Great for her, but not so much for me when it comes to using my name for branding purposes. Funny you noticed that! 😉

Hey Regina –
You can find out what affiliate programs I recommend for users during my live session, and from there you can find out if they pay out to people in Portugal. 🙂 I know you’re in a different time zone, so even if you can’t come live you can watch the replay!

Hi Cristine, I came across your pin while looking for ways to promote my online retail work clothing business. I repinned it and am very interested in your course. I am 71 years old and have been married for 50 years. When my wife had to go into a care home it wiped out our retirement savings and I have been struggling financially. My interest is two fold – to affiliate market for others in order to earn some money and also to figure out if there is an inexpensive way to promote my own online business. I can not afford the steep startup fees that most affiliate networks charge but am perfectly willing to pay a 10% commission on affiliate generated sales. Any advice that you could give me would be greatly appreciated. You can see the store at http://www.workwearheadquarters.com Thank you!

Do you have any posts explaining exactly how you made that custom pin? I have basic knowledge of Pic Monkey but I guess I’m concerned about copyright stuff when it comes to using someone else’s pictures to create my own collage like that.

Well, I absolutely am in L*O*V*E with Pinterest, for a few years now, and pin everyday. I have also used promoted pins, and hope to use the program again. Would be easy for me to just keep working on Pinterest, lol! Twitter and FBook do not compare! Neither does Wanelo. I am have a website/blog, but don’t want to make it into a money-hogging machine so to speak. Just light advertising there. I could devote various amounts of time each week, often more than 5 hrs. I’m caregiver to my 76 yo mom, so like those staying at home with children, my schedule is choppy. Like you, Christina, I do many other things too, artist/writer/crafter. Signed my email up to get more info. Thanks!

Hi Again Christina: I’d like to join the Live Session, but I’ve already given my email for immediate access to the free ebook or something? Then I submitted my email when I made my 1st comment. Reluctant to submit my email again for the live session. Do I need to? Don’t want to get 3 separate emails for the same thing, lol. Thanks!

Sandi,
Ah yes! I’m sorry I just saw this, we’re moving and it’s been crazy, we have no internet at the new place. Shoot me an email (if you just signed up you’ll have one in your inbox) and I’ll make sure you have access to whatever you need!

Hi. I watched your video and I tried to sign up for Shopstyle but it says that you have to enter in a website. So I am confused how to do this without a website. Also do you need to make your Pinterest account a business account to do this?

Hi,
how do i enroll in an affiliate program that does not require me to already have a webpage/business? I went to AWIN and LinkShare ect. and evey affiliate site requires an established website and business?

I may have missed this but i tried to sign up for arwin and shopstyle and both asked for a valid website. I dont have one so i am wondering what to do in that case. I would take your course but I’m batten 0 income as i am a stay at home mama and all extra cash goes to bills. Anyway, if you could email me and let me know how to get around the website thing that would be great! Thanks!

I’m all signed up with your video and will link up with everything else you’re doing (that I can afford) – I think you have the answers I’m looking for. But I have an immediate curiosity. . . How does it benefit me as an affiliate marketer to save pins that I didn’t originate?

I am seeing a re-pin of mine go off the charts with 44,000 views and almost 500 saves and bunches of clicks that go nowhere that makes me any money in just 2 weeks. That has never happened to me before (and ironically it started a couple of days before I read your article) While I have gobs of pins out there with beautiful content, ads etc. that are getting 10 clicks a month?? Anyway, the question was how does it benefit me as an affiliate marketer to save pins that I didn’t originate?

Karen,
That’s a great question! Pinterest’s new smart feed algorithms will not show your Pins if you only have Pins that aren’t very popular with your audience. Every new affiliate Pin will naturally start off as very low-Repins, since it’s new content. So if you want your Pins in general to show up in the smart feed, you’ll need to repin consistently, and repin popular content in addition to your affiliate content in order to have any of your content show up in people’s feed. 😀

So much great information! I’m anxious to get started. I’m trying to turn my private Pinterest over to a business one and I went to the business site and it tells me to click on the red “convert” button… not sure if I’m blind or what, but I cannot find it! I’ve read every inch of it and just can’t see it. lol! What am I missing?

Hi, I am 8 years old woman, I am disabled. Is it possible for me to make money from Pinterest?
I own a computer and I really need to make some money to cover my bills, since disability check is very very low.
Please let me know at your convenience and also I need to know how to sign for the Pinterest business.

Dalia,
The first step to getting started is to sign up to get instant access to my free video, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Making Money on Pinterest. That’s a great overview that will give you realistic expectations and it will give you the information about the course, if you’re interested in that too. 😀

I would like to take your course, please send me info. I am a homeschooling mom and would love to blog but I’m not a great writer. This would be a great alternative to exhibit the products my kids and I love.

Janna,
Well, this is very different than blogging. This is sharing affiliate links only on Pinterest, which I tell my students to expect to spend 6-8 weeks building before seeing profits. 🙂 This definitely is not a get rich quick scheme kind of gig 😉

I have a question. I went to sign up for Shopstyle Collective and it requires you to submit a URL. Also in their FAQ it says they review your website to make sure you are a good fit for their affiliate network. How do you sign up if you only want to do this on Pinterest and social media?

Hey, I want to start a mom blog but don’t know where to start. I have a Pinterest account that gets over 5000 views per month on average. Do you think that is enough traffic to start pinning affiliate links?

Brianna,
It is the perfect time to start! Actually, starting off when you have a small following means you have more income potential long-term than someone who has spent years building their account without any affiliate Pins.

I have a question about actually getting followers. You say to just pin and pin use these scheduled pins and things. I feel like I pin all the time and don’t have any new followers. How do you actually get more followers? Its something I read all the time and no one says how to really do it.

How many followers did you start with and how many do you have now? Sometimes you may not have a lot of new followers for a while (this happened to me) but typically what will happen is that you will have a sudden influx of followers. This is very normal.

You talked about having to disclose your affiliate links.
Would it be enough for me to put in a message on my pinterest profile home page saying: the links on this page may bring me a slight profit with no cost to you, they are my affiliate links.
Thank you in advance!

I am a student enrolled in your 5 Days to Profitable Affiliate Pinning e-course and am currently working on managing my boards as I transition to the business side of Pinterest. I am neither a blogger nor entrepreneur so many of my boards cover broad categories instead of having a specific focus. I have begun the process of creating new boards for different topics, however, some of them only contain a handful of pins.

Your blog and course have answered most of my questions, yet I am curious: Is the number of pins a board contains relevant at the beginning of this process to attract followers? and if so, is building one board at a time more beneficial than trying to bring up the pin count across all boards?

I am so glad to have come across your blog (via Pinterest of course!) 🙂
Thank you in advance for your thoughts and time.

Want to learn more about this. I’ve been searching this online “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Making Money on Pinterest” but there were a lot of results, don’t know what to choose. Can you send me the right link? So that I can start watching it as soon I got it. Thanks 🙂

Hi,
Well your post is kind of confusing but very educative. I’m not tech savvy and I was wondering if you have any free e-course that explains this in full detail especially how to start and cost of starting. It would be of great help to me as i’m currently looking for other sources of income other than my 9-5 job.

Ashley-
If you go to the little circle/picture on the top right and click on “my profile” and then copy the web address in the browser on the top, that is your address. Mine is https://www.pinterest.com/ChristinaRRoot/pins/ and yours will just have a different ending!

Hi Cherry,
Before you join our program, I recommend trying to sign up for my preferred affiliate program, ShopStyle Collective. Then, if you are able to get in with them, go ahead and join our courses!

I have tried to send this message to you several times and have failed. So I’m going to make this very quick and hope that I do it right this time. I am 60 years old trying something new comes very difficult for me there is much I don’t understand. I would sincerely like to supplement my income actually I absolutely have to supplement my income some out due to health issues I’m going to be forced to retire soon and I am told that I have a long fight ahead of me for any kind of disability and it doesn’t matter because that’s not enough anyway I desperately need to find a way to supplement my income I don’t understand much of what you wrote here but wondered if there is someplace to go to get started I have tried to find other sites on Pinterest for the absolute beginner who does not understand or know how to do anything and it’s all such a maze there’s so much out there I don’t know where to begin and I’m kind of overwhelmed. Do you have any suggestions

Excellent blog! Do you have any helpful hints for aspiring
writers? I’m hoping to start my own blog soon but I’m a little
lost on everything. Would you suggest starting with a free platform like WordPress or
go for a paid option? There are so many options out there that I’m totally overwhelmed ..
Any recommendations? Thanks a lot!

I pinned literally hundreds of Shopstyle products for a few months and made pennies. I joined group boards and tribes and put them on there, used Tailwind and Boardbooster and never reached even the minimum $100. I just don’t understand how this works? I used a mixture of different pin imagery to see what worked and nothing happened.

Trish,
Just “sharing links” is a common mistake Pinterest affiliate marketers make, a lot of bloggers make it sound like you can share links and magically make money…that’s just not the case. There’s a lot more strategy involved which I cover in my ecourses, I recommend starting with 5 Days to Profitable Affiliate Pinning, which you can find here.

Evangeline,
Nope, no website needed to do Pinterest affiliate marketing!
When you sign up for most affiliate marketing programs, they’ll ask for your website. Instead of using a website, use your Pinterest profile link. Shopstyle Collective is particularly easy to get into!

Ashley, I work on my Pinterest affiliate marketing (totally separate from my blog) less than 10 hours a month – at this point. I’m very quick with image design, so I can make Pins very quickly at this stage.

First I wanted to say thanks for all that you are doing, you are truly a great help to so many people like myself. I am a stay at home mom wanting to earn an online income, and I have wanted to try affiliate marketing for some time now but felt like I couldn’t do it, I knew nothing really about it but wanted to learn. I finally came across one of your free courses and it has motivated me a lot and now I can’t wait to start.
The thing is, When I started on Pinterest, I created many boards concerning several topics. The thing is, when I switch to a business account and identify my niche, what do I do with all the boards I created and the group boards I joined outside of my niche? Sorry if the question sounds silly but I am new to all of this and will need help in understanding how it all works. Also, could you tell me which companies work with affiliates from outside the U.S?
Here’s a link to my Pinterest profile: https://www.pinterest.com/pinkrose98rv/

Thanks again for being so great, and I wish you the best!. Anxious to hear from you.

Kerry,
Since you are outside of the US, it is best to see if you can get approved with Shopstyle Collective and Awin first. You can still keep the boards outside of your niche or you can clean it up a bit. Also, the cool thing about being a student is you can belong to our closed Facebook groups and get help, tips, and encouragement from fellow students who love to help out!

Hello Christina! Good day! I’m Kristine. I just finished in your free training. I enjoy it. Thanks for that opportunity of sharing ways to earn money by an affiliate marketing. Would like to inquire, I tried joining the shopstylecollective, im already 1 week, just coffused, am i qualified to join in their affiliate program considering I am from the Philippines?

There are several students from outside of the states. The only thing necessary is for you to be able to get an account with Shopstyle Collective. If you are unable to do that, then this probably would not work for you.

Hi Christina! I found your post very inspirational & I pinned it a few weeks ago so I could come back to read it more in depth later. Now that I have, I just wanted to know if its still possible to make affiliate sales with barely any followers (I literally have two followers). I have people that save my pins all the time but as far as followers go, I’m lacking in that department. Is this still possible? & does your free ecourse cover that at all?

Tyanna, Most people who start have very few followers, just like you 🙂 I encourage you to look at the free ecourse, but also join the Facebook group (the link is in the free ecourse!), you are DEFINITELY not alone with starting off with following of almost-none!

Is it necessary to “make” my own pins? If so, how do I do that? I took your online course, but that was never described. I just started using Shop Style Collective today, and I see how easy it is to pin from there. However, I don’t see how I can make my own pins using those mages/websites to the products. A little more explanation on this would be helpful. Thanks!

Heather, While you don’t “have to” – it can really increase your conversions and by extension your income. The course 5 Days to Profitable Affiliate Pinning doesn’t cover that because it’s a “getting started” course which is meant to help you get started and isn’t an all-inclusive course.

This is something we discuss a lot in the Facebook group, it’s a bit beyond the scope of discussion in a blog comment. 🙂

I’m curious…. Can you explain how you file taxes with doing the Pinterest affiliate marketing? Do you have to keep track of what you make and when? Do you file 1099 form? Sorry I’ve just been looking For Somthing I can do from home to help my husband but I dont want to completly screw up his taxes every year either

Thanks for your post. I am confused with Pinterest as they allowed some of my pins with affiliate links and not others. I read their policy and the new pins say exactly where the pin will take the pinners but it keeps blocking them. I find them confusing but I have drafted a post to overcome this problem.

Hi, Stephanie,
Nope, no website needed to do Pinterest affiliate marketing!
When you sign up for most affiliate marketing programs, they’ll ask for your website. Instead of using a website, use your Pinterest profile link. Shopstyle Collective is particularly easy to get into!

I have a question if you already have a personal pinterest account and you convert it to a business account can I use my name as the business.Or can I put my name after pinterest in the profile line. I really don’t know what to use for a business name because I have different boards. I really want to get started I pin a lot and love pinterest I don’t want tomake any mistakes.

Hi Barbara,
You should name your business something appropriate for your focus genre, but don’t sweat it and overanalyze it too much. Use keywords that people might search for – for example if you Pin about saving money your business name might look like this “Your Name | Frugal Living and Getting out of Debt” or something like that.

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